Why do humans hold onto traditions? Many pundits predicted that modernization and the rise of a mass culture would displace traditions, especially in America, b

What exactly is culture? The authors of this volume suggest that the study of one of anthropology's central questions may be a route to developing a scientific

This provocative book offers a new theory of culture with a unique focus on our aesthetic response to order and meaningfulness.

This book is about our appreciation for order and meaningfulness. It offers a new theory of that feeling inspired by Durkheim and Marx, then derives other theor

What exactly is culture? The authors of this volume suggest that the study of one of anthropology's central questions may be a route to developing a scientific